Sewer services switch to southside plant

Iowa City relocates wastewater treatment to newer plant as older site preps for makeover

6:21 PM,
Mar. 1, 2014

Jennifer Kozajda tests water samples Wednesday at Iowa City's South Wastewater Treatment Plant. Iowa City has finally transferred all operations from the decommissioned North Wastewater Treatment Plant, which was destroyed in the flood of 2008.

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| By Sara Agnew
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Six years after floodwaters surrounded the North Wastewater Treatment Plant, damaging pumps and electrical components, the city of Iowa City has decommissioned the 79-year-old facility and transferred operations to the newly expanded South Wastewater Treatment Plant on Napoleon Street.

The $50.2 million relocation project went off without a hitch earlier this month when the last pipe connection was made and the north plant - at 1000 S. Clinton St. where Clinton meets Kirkwood Avenue - was taken offline and shut down.

Today, the city's influent is being treated at the state-of-the-art ...